California Water Rights Enforcement Actions
This list includes detail information for each enforcement action record as stored in the State Water Resources Control Board's "Electronic Water Rights Information Management System" (EWRIMS) database. Each row is represent the unique enforcement action record and the associated investigation, number of violations, complaints, the "Points of Investigation" (POI) and the associated water rights Application ID (unique identifier for a water right). Not all enforcement actions are associated to a water right so there may not be any water right associated to the enforcement action and one enforcement action may be associated with multiple water right IDs. This file is in flat file LONG format and does not include all the information associated to a water right such all uses and seasons. Other information may be available in the associated flat files for each category. https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov//ciwqs/ewrims/EWMenuPublic.jsp https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/enforcement/
Data files
| Data title and description | Access data | File details | Last updated |
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California Water Rights Enforcement Actions This list includes detail information for each enforcement action record as stored in the State Water Resources Control Board's "Electronic Water Rights Information Management System" (EWRIMS) database. Each row is represent the unique enforcement action record and the associated investigation, number of violations, complaints, the "Points of Investigation" (POI) and the associated water rights Application ID (unique identifier for a water right). Not all enforcement actions are associated to a water right so there may not be any water right associated to the enforcement action and one enforcement action may be associated with multiple water right IDs. This file is in flat file LONG format and does not include all the information associated to a water right such all uses and seasons. Other information may be available in the associated flat files for each category. https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov//ciwqs/ewrims/EWMenuPublic.jsp https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/enforcement/ | Download | CSV 1.06 MB | 11/18/21 |
Supporting files
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Data Dictionary Water Rights Enforcement The Water Rights Enforcement data dictionary includes detail description of every data element provided, the format, examples, known issues, application to type of water right and a classification. | Download | XLSX 93.47 KB | 11/18/21 |
Data Dictionary Type and Status of Water Rights This is a detail description of the types of water rights listed. | Download | DOCX 32.81 KB | 11/18/21 |
More details
Additional Information: The unique identifier for the dataset is the EA_ID (Enforcement Action ID). One enforcement action can be associated with multiple violations, and can also be associated with none, one or many water rights id. An enforcement action may be filed against the holder of an Application permit or license, or against a water user who does not appear to have a valid water right. An Application ID can have zero, one or more enforcement action. * Each row will contain a unique enforcement record associated with the water right (Example - 1 water right could have 3 enforcement records). In most cases one to many relationships are resoved by providing an aggegate of the values, the most relevant or recent value, or a reduced number of the most relevant values in the dataset. Associated water rights information is provided on separate files. Limitations: “Use of this data is subject to the CA.gov Conditions of Use and any copyright and proprietary notices incorporated in or accompanying the individual files.” Data Methodology: The data is maintained in the eWRIMS database by authorized staff in the Division of Water Rights and is an electronic representation of the actual legal water right documents. Some of the data records may not be complete or up to date. Some of the data is directly reported by the Water Right holders and may have not been reviewed or verified for accuracy and completeness (QAQC).
State of California. The data can be filtered by spatial references such as Latitude and Longitude, County, Hydrologic Units (HUC), etc.
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